
Originally Posted by
blake
"If the United States decided to withdraw its force, then this would be right,” he said, while also claiming that U.S. forces impeded Russia’s efforts at a peace resolution.
of course, technically, this is 100% correct. it basically means we are no longer trying to support or protect the people being ethnically cleansed by bashar, that we will no longer attempt to replace bashar with a 'democracy friendly' regime, and that russia will be allowed to possess a proxy puppet regime there, and that iran can set up a military theme park on the literal border of israel.
it also means that russia can start replacing its wagner mercenaries with actual russian soldiers.
and that russia will now become a lightening rod for domestic attacks from ISIS and by proxy through the chechen actors.
this is all fairly comforting considering general mattis turned in his papers yesterday, meaning trump we dont have to worry about general alex jones dropping therms on damascus quite so very much.
also i believe it costs us around $13,000,000 a day to maintain our presence there. now he can spend that money on his wall, which will cost probably in the $4bn range to complete.
note that this isnt a one time fee of course, because it will cost Antifa about $3000 in shape charges and cheap beer to bring it down for kicks every weekend.
also its worth noting that mattis resigned within hours of trump making this decision public because it abandons our goal of getting iran out of syria, which means iran will be totally unchecked in its ongoing efforts to destabilize israel from its syrian border.
hence mattis quitting in disgust btw.
also fun fact, did you know that teachers in texas literally have to swear an oath to support israel?
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/...-anti-bds-law/
hows it going to play for republicans in texas when israel calls trump an anti-semite and russian pawn? hows it going to play with the national security council when israel embargos its intelligence output? aka why we give a shit about israel at all?
4d chess tho, right dish?